Oh Holy (Jewish) Night:
Tonight is Kol Nidre, the holiest night of the Jewish year, the beginning of Yom Kippur.
Tomorrow we fast. We think of who we might have harmed, through action or will, over the last year. We ask for forgiveness. At sundown, the book of life is closed and we begin the year anew.
For the last six years, I’ve spent Yom Kippur alone, thinking, mediating. I usually write a letter to someone I feel I need to make amends to. I break the fast and eat with friends around 6.
It’s a very full and significant day, which I’ll talk more about when it’s over.